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Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago
- CoastalCoder 1y agoHas anyone found a clear indication of the wreck's location? There's been a lot of interesting ship activity in Narraganset Bay lately, at least as seen when crossing the Jamestown / Newport bridges. I'm curious if any of it's related to that wreck.
- Hilift 1y agoThe map shows a location of a line of deliberately scuttled ships to block the harbor between Rose Island and Battery Park. Most of the ships were salvaged, the Endeavour was not.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoInteresting, thanks. I guess I was probably barking up the wrong tree then. Most of the interesting ship activity I've been seeing lately is further west and north. And URI GSO's research vessel has been closer to its main dock, which shouldn't have surprised me one little bit.
- app134 1y agoI don't believe they have made it public. I worked this wreck with RIMAP and had to sign an NDA before boating out, but that was back in 2020
- HeyLaughingBoy 1y ago> Lord Sandwich was one of thirteen vessels scuttled (deliberately sunk) to act as a submerged blockade That's a pretty sucky end for a vessel that made so much history.
- duxup 1y agoI'm sure the rename had good reason but I can't imagine going from a name like "HMS Endeavour", what a great name, to "Lord Sandwich" ... in modern times that sounds like some lighthearted forum username.
- WalterBright 1y agoEven better: "Sir Osis of Liver"
- colechristensen 1y agoOnly when you forget that "sandwich" was a name of a place first (and the person with a title associated with it ". Putting stuff between bread is named after a person and may well have been poking fun at him originally.
- linksnapzz 1y agoThe HMS Lord Sandwich's namesake is almost certainly former 1st Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich && person that the dish is actually named after.
- jonstewart 1y agoHe was also head of the British navy ("First Lord of the Admiralty") at the time and a great supporter of Cook's, so there's even a closer connection specific to the Endeavor. Cook named Hawaii the "Sandwich Islands" after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sand...
- anonymous344 1y agohow tf u can make website so awful to the mobile user?
- pxmpxm 1y agoTBH not a ton better on the desktop...
- fluidcruft 1y agoSeems fine on Firefox Android. Possibly uBlock helps there are a bunch of empty white things so dunno.
- jen729w 1y agoA once-decent newspaper whose broadsheet I used to read in the late 90s. Long gone the way of the Daily Mail et. al., alas. I see the Indie's URL now and don't even bother.
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- cromulent 1y agoDidn't they announce this 3 years ago? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/03/captain-cook-ship-endeavour-identified-confirmed-shipwreck-us-rhode-island https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/03/capta...
- hluska 1y agoThat article says that the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project didn’t agree with the identification. This new article is about a published article on the discovery. The articles are totally different.
- madaxe_again 1y agoI read it not so much as a disagreement over identification but over publication rights, which is the norm in academia.
- bredren 1y ago> who said the finding was “premature” and a “breach of contract”, claiming that it was the lead organisation for the study “Premature” and “breach of contract” are very different things. I wonder what additional work was done so as to find that announcement now, years later, is okay.
- freedomben 1y agoMy parent brain read this as Captain Hook instead of Captain Cook and I've gotta say, I'm a little disappointed
- BurningFrog 1y agoNow I finally realize why the character is named Captain Hook!
- parpfish 1y agoIt’s just a coincidence that he has a hook for a hand. He was Mr Hook for years before that accident where the croc bit his hand off.
- mediumsmart 1y agoYou are not supposed to cook a sandwich
- rbits 1y agoI beg to differ
- HeyLaughingBoy 1y agoPanini, anyone? I take it you've never had a good Cuban sandwich, then.
- roygbiv2 1y agoToasted sandwich? They're pretty much the god of sandwiches.
- BurningFrog 1y agoA bit odd to have an Al Jazeera video on https://www.independent.co.uk/ https://www.independent.co.uk/